Digital campaigning as a policy of democracy promotion
Applying deliberative theories of democracy to political parties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6412708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Odzuck (0000-0001-6549-1291, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Sophie Günther (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 507-530 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1430-6387 • E-ISSN: 2366-2638 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s41358-021-00308-w |
| OpenAlex | W4200383416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 52 |
Today’s election campaigns are heavily data-driven. Despite the numerous skeptical voices questioning the compatibility of specific campaigning practices with fundamental principles of liberal democracies, there has to date been little comprehensive work in this area from the perspective of normative democratic theory. Our article addresses this gap by drawing on recent research on the normative theory of political parties in the field of deliberative democratic theory. The deliberative theories of democracy proposed by Habermas and Rawls contain structural elements of a normative theory of the political party: the special status of political parties as mediators between background culture and the political forum, between the political system and the public sphere, and between the individual and the state, confers on them a central position as actors in in the public use of reason and deliberation.We argue in this article for a view of digital campaigning as a policy of democracy promotion and for the proposition that, alongside other actors, political parties have a special responsibility in this regard. We point to the implications for the evaluation and design of digital political microtargeting that arise from the application of deliberative principles to political parties and consider the need they reveal for the ongoing development of detailed, nuanced normative theories of democracy
Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Law and economics · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics
Parties and party systems
Rawls, Information Technology, and the Sociotechnical Bases of Self-Respect
Jürgen Habermas
What are Campaigns For?
Justice as Fairness
Online Political Microtargeting
Technology, autonomy, and manipulation
The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy
An economic theory of democracy
A Theory of Justice
Partisanship and Political Liberalism in Diverse Societies
Depoliticizing Democracy
Response
Digital Democracy
Commentary on Cristina Lafont, Democracy Without Shortcuts
Democracy for Realists
Engineering the public
Political Liberalism vs. “The Great Game of Politics”
The Crisis of the European Union. A Response
Europe
Spiraling downward
Political Communication in Media Society
Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns
Ideal Speech Conditions, Modern Discourse and Education
Die digitale Konstellation. Eine Positionsbestimmung
On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation
Partisan Justification
Judging Nudging
Manipulating Citizens
The Political Theory of Parties and Partisanship
Social media and microtargeting
Between Facts and Norms
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |